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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we giving private universities with huge endowments any money at all? Columbia’s endowment it 14.8 BILLION. 400 million is a drop in the bucket for them. [/quote]

Do you really not understand what grants to the universities fund and are for? Do you really not understand what the government and the country gets out of those grants?

Do you think these are grants to build fancy dorms and dining halls?[/quote]

Enlighten me, why is the government giving money to a wealthy school instead of a poor one?[/quote]

Federal grants mostly go towards science and research. There are about 60 R1 universities - PhD granting universities that do much of the science and research in the US. This is where new medicine and all sorts of research intensive work comes from. Tuition isn't covering a new treatment for colon cancer or Alzheimer's. That comes from federal research grants to R1 universities - like Columbia. Republicans unfortunately are choosing to destroy science and research in the US. And they sell their destruction by listing it as "government giving money to a wealthy school" as you put it. So those who are poorly informed tend to think of federal grants as nothing more than a scam by universities. They never seem to ask where does research actually come from? [/quote]

Apparently, grants fund student tuitions.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1262111.page[/quote]
Grad students in the sciences

Undergraduate are funded mainly via endowments, but yes, if research grants are cut, the funding needs to be replaced. If from endowments, then less for undergraduate tuition aid[/quote]

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